ISBN:
9780814752319
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0814752314
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xxviii, 283 pages)
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illustrations.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Millet, Kitty American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust, Laura Levitt (New York: New York University Press, 2007), xxxvi + 283 pp., cloth 40.00 2011
Parallel Title:
Print version American Jewish loss after the Holocaust
DDC:
305.8924073
Keywords:
Levitt, Laura 1960-
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Levitt, Laura
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Levitt, Laura
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Levitt, Laura 1960-
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Levitt, Laura
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Jews Identity
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United States
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the arts
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Jews Identity
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the arts
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Jews Identity
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the arts
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Jews ; Identity
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United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Indirection and ordinary Jews -- Looking out from under a long shadow -- Postmarked pictures -- Secret stashes -- Mary, Irena, and me: keepers of accounts -- Conclusion: other ghosts, other encounters, other communities.
Abstract:
Many of us belong to communities that have been scarred by terrible calamities. And many of us come from families that have suffered grievous losses. How we reflect on these legacies of loss and the ways they inform each other are the questions Laura Levitt takes up in this provocative and passionate book. An American Jew whose family was not directly affected by the Holocaust, Levitt grapples with the challenges of contending with ordinary Jewish loss. She suggests that although the memory of the Holocaust may seem to overshadow all other kinds of loss for American Jews, it can also open up p
Description / Table of Contents:
Indirection and ordinary JewsLooking out from under a long shadow -- Postmarked pictures -- Secret stashes -- Mary, Irena, and me: keepers of accounts -- Conclusion: other ghosts, other encounters, other communities.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-271) and index. - Description based on print version record
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